APPROXIMATE SONATA | BALLET IMPERIAL | LA BAYADERE | CHOPINIANA | DIANA AND ACTEON | DON QUIXOTE | ETUDES | JEWELS | IN THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED | LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE | PAQUITA | PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 | RAYMONDA | SCHEHEREZADE | SERENADE | STEPTEXT | LE CORSAIRE-LE JARDIN ANIMEE
THE DYING SWAN | THE VERTIGINOUS THRILL OF EXACTITUDE

PIANO CONCERTO No.2 (BALLET IMPERIAL)

Music by PYOTR  TCHAIKOVSKY (Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major)
Choreography by GEORGE  BALANCHINE ┬й The George Balanchine Trust
Staging by  COLLEEN NEARY
Costumes after  KARINSKA,
Executed by TATIANA NOGINOVA
Lighting by MARK STANLEY
Executed by  VLADIMIR LUKASHEVICH

World premiere:  Under the title of тАЬBallet ImperialтАЭ  June 25, 1941,
American Ballet Caravan, Teatro Municipal, Rio de  Janeiro
New Production under the title  тАЬPiano Concerto No. 2: January 12, 1973,
New York  City Ballet, New York State  Theatre, New  York
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre:  April 13, 2004, St.  Petersburg

George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial is presented by 
arrangement with The  George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in
accordance  with
the  Balanchine Style ┬о and Balanchine Technique ┬о Service Standards
established 
and provided by the Trust.

The Mariinsky Theatre would like to  express its gratitude to Mrs. Bettina
von Siemens for her support in bringing  the тАЬBallet of George BalanchineтАЭ
project to life

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